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me every single morning: ugh. so tired. DEFINITELY going to bed early tonight.

me as soon as it's bedtime: I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE ALIVE. SLEEP IS FOR FOOLS AND WEAKLINGS. I AM IMMORTAL. I AM UNSTOPPABLE. I REQUIRE NO SLEEP.

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happy pride month, please consider checking out a list i've made on backloggd of games with trans characters in them!

the ones shown are just a few examples, it is by no means a complete list as i am always looking for new additions. if you know of a game that isn't listed (or if you feel a correction should be made to an existing entry), please mention it to me in my ask box or in the list's comments!

thank you for reading!! 💖🏳️‍⚧️

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Happy Pride Month!

Rune is my oldest character, ever since I was a teen! They've gone through a bunch of iterations, and have even taken the backseat a few times, but they've always been me. And after a lot of thinking and soul searching, I'm happy to call them (and me!)... well, they!

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Can you please elaborate on the original FFXIV getting blown up?

yeah so, in summary, when FF14 was first released it was helmed by an entirely different team of producers who were very much not interested in learning from developments in the MMO genre up to that point and kinda created a mess of a game. it wasn’t really due to one thing in particular that the game failed though, the entire production was highly mismanaged. people knew in beta that it was going to be a mess but they pushed it out anyway and it was a major flop critically and a big hit to square’s reputation. the producers were then removed from the project and another producer named Naoki Yoshida who had a lot of experience working on the Dragon Quest MMO was brought on to replace them and hopefully improve the state of the game.

when realizing just how fucked FF14 1.0 was at the time, yoshida gave square a bit of a hail mary option and was like “we can improve this game, but it will never be great in this form. let me continue making updates to the game… while also in the background secretly rebuild the entire game almost from scratch”. fucking miraculously square was like “yeah sure” and actually gave that idea the greenlight, with a 2-year window to release.

so that became the plan. improve the game in incremental amounts for players currently sticking with it, and then wipe the whole slate clean and release a FF14 2.0 that was a fundamentally remade experience, actually taking more design inspiration from other successful MMOs and other final fantasy games. they didn’t just decide to wipe the original game on a meta level though, they actually worked the destruction of FF14 1.0 into the plot of both games. and so, famously, the day that the servers for 1.0 were shut down was a day where IN GAME players fought a horde of deadly monsters spawning around the world until inevitably a giant moon crashed into the world and took the servers offline for good. and then when you play 2.0, they frequently reference this calamity in the early MSQ and players who stuck with 1.0 until the end actually got their entire character transferred over with a special tattoo, opening cutscenes, and special dialogue throughout the MSQ that connects them to the game that was deleted.

there’s a 3-part noclip documentary that goes into more detail, it is FASCINATING stuff.

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I think I had a big level up recently. I went from doing one or two drawings every 6 months to having 6 WIPs I'm excited to finish in one month and like 2-3 finished pieces. I am THRIVING

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Gym leaders and such often have names that match their type which raises the question: which type would you specialise in based only on your name?

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Training Arc Part 3: finally got a chance to play with the friend, won 11-4. Lost 3 games to his Akuma, then only lost 1 to his main (and most irritating), Dhalsim. The most satisfying download I've ever had sitting full screen and letting him zone me out as Dhalsim knowing he's gonna give up the advantage and teleport into my waiting arms (he did (twice))

All that hard work (one week of actual training then getting distracted) paid off!

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Now that the dino dog is done, I kinda wanna get a suit of him? Like maybe just a head, hands, and a big ol' tail to accidentally knock people over with. There's also a popular? con near me so maybe I'll do my first con ever with it too.

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idk if the commissioner has a tumblr but i got commissioned to draw the actual kobold factory and it was a lot of fun so I'm posting it

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Ma! There's a weird... dog outside!

Looking at my friend's super cute dino dog, then remembering Richmond has a dog and dino dog form too inspired the hell out of me to do a little mini redesign!

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Would anyone be interested in a $5 icon similar to these? Opening a few discounted slots to help me out so I can get necessities and get out of the negative balance

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Got this super cute comm of my tanuki-thing Richmond from @lakefoundtheirexit ! They've just opened up $5 icons to help with some finances, so go check 'em out!

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May 2024 Commissions OPEN

here is the submission form which also contains the TOS!

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Do you have a FA?

Naw, I don't. All my stuff's on twitter, cohost, bsky, and here.

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I think he's neat too

A late birthday gift for @koboldfactory !

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REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

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I need to play Spiral Knights again but I'm being stubborn and waiting for someone sell me a certain cosmetic set that was released like once 10 years ago in a loot box and is insanely expensive because of that so I can properly play